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Sunday, January 18, 2009

SUNDAY FUNNIES


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The above is the splash panel drawn by Will Elder in the very first issue of MAD, which then, in it infant stage was a comic book.

6 comments:

  1. That's what I say, too. Ganefs to all of you, so there.

    Did Mad ever leave its infant stage? Hope not.

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  2. Si,
    I just thought of a name for a new magazine for middle-age to elderly who still enjoy things and have their own drummer:

    Immaturity.

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  3. My granddaughter told me one time, with a wry little smile, that I was being "inappropriate". I told her that I have to grow old but do not have to grow up.

    By the way, what did "ganefs" mean, if you can print it in primetime?

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  4. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ganef,
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ganefs,
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ganefs

    Hope I can live up to the rascal, scoundrel part.

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  5. Si,
    I have the least idea what Ganefs mean. The writer/editor Harvey Kurtzman was always tossing in a Yiddish slang word. But anyway, on the internet the definition of ganef is to "rule to a flat stomach" - or "losing your stomach" - which happens later in the story.
    "Inappropriate" huh? That could be the name of Immaturity's sister magazine.
    Opps! Now I see you did some research in your next comment.

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  6. Tossing your cookies is just as good. Rascals and scoundrels do that a lot, don't they.

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